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Seeing Saturn. ARCS @ Yerkes Observatory Friday, February 22, 2008 22:42 Central Standard Time Saturday, February 23, 2008 04:42 Universal Time. Yerkes Observatory. 24 inch reflector dome. 40 inch refractor dome. http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/. Yerkes 40 inch refractor.
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Seeing Saturn ARCS @ Yerkes Observatory Friday, February 22, 2008 22:42 Central Standard Time Saturday, February 23, 2008 04:42 Universal Time Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Yerkes Observatory 24 inch reflector dome 40 inch refractor dome Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
Yerkes 40 inch refractor Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
Yerkes Observatory24 inch reflecting telescope Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Screen Capture from Stellarium http://www.stellarium.org/ Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
M Corp’s Guess……. Titan Dione Rhea Tethys Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Student Predictions - Board Work Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Saturn on other nights • You can find more sets of images of Saturn and other objects at http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/outreach/observing/yerkes24/2008images/ • Can you identify the moons in this image? Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Try Subaru Image Processor Makali’i • Download Makali’i (means Pleiades in Hawaiian) from http://makalii.mtk.nao.ac.jp/index.html.en • Remember to register your software. • Then open up a set of Saturn images. • Set up the contrast so you can see the moons. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Auto Contrast Setup Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Blink to watch the ‘seeing’ change the quality of the images. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Sometimes it looks like a moon is double! ‘Poor seeing’ creates kind of a double exposure. Seeing: Different temperatures and densities of bubbles or layers of air in the atmosphere refract the light first this way, then that way. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
Hubble SpaceTelescope is above the Earth’s atmosphere... No worries about ‘seeing’ conditions out in space! http://heritage.stsci.edu/1998/29/index.html Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration